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From: mck@hpdstma.HP.COM (Doug Mckenzie)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Is your editor manly enough to edit itself?
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Date: 13 Sep 88 14:57:05 GMT
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>>GNU-Emacs, the editor manly enough to edit itself.  Don't leave home without
>>it.

>Would anyone like to debate whether "manly" is the appropriate
>gender term. Since it is both doing and being done too, perhaps

Editing oneself seems a bit masochistic to me.  Reminds me of something
I read about some unfortunate kid who performed surgery on himself.
He did a "good" job:  anaesthesia, sterile environment, good healing.
The only trouble was, he didn't need any surgery.